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Monday, March 21, 2016

Jessa's Turkey Recipe

"It's okay if you don't know what you're doing. As long as you use lots of butter, it'll turn out okay." (Jessa Seewald)

On last weeks episode, Jessa prepared two turkeys for her Duggar family fall feast. A few of you asked for her recipe, so here you go! She found it on Food Network. Watch the video below, and click here to view the written recipe. Jessa also added slices of butter underneath the skins of the turkeys.

30 comments:

I am confused as to why Jessa prepared the Thanksgiving turkeys, since she gave birth weeks before and had significant blood loss. The media keeps reporting how much Jana and siblings are helping her yet she has to prep and cook 2 turkeys. God Bless her!

She chose to its not like they made her I applaud her for even hosting that especially with a newborn just under month you guys should not be so hard on this family like us they are human and not perfect and never once claimed to be

So Jessa's a tough cookie and bounces back fast. It's not like she was limping around that kitchen, too weak to pick up the turkey pan. Sometimes I just have to shake my head and "lol!" at these comments!

I thought one of her turkeys looked "herb-y" and the other one looked like it had been sprinkled with paprika, or something red in color. Nothing in that recipe is red.

But really, you don't need a "recipe" for turkey, especially if you're using those cooking bags. Just follow the instructions on the package of cooking bags, and go by the weight on the turkey's tag. Or follow the instructions on the turkey wrapper. Everyone tries to make cooking turkeys so complicated, but there's nothing to it. You don't need anything under the skin - no butter. But you do need to remember to shake flour in the cooking bag & slit it, and not have it touch the oven sides. Jana was the only one who had any cooking sense in that episode.

I've been cooking Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys for over 50 years, and have never used a recipe. The cooking time & temp will be right on the turkey bag. Just take the bits & pieces out of the bird, rinse it out, and put it in the pan in a 325 oven, tented loosely with foil til the last 45 minutes or so if you want it to brown up & look pretty. Turkeys these days are injected with so much water (brine mix) that you don't need to baste or add butter.

Probably because moms can't be stopped sometimes, no matter the ailment! God Bless her, with out this post, I'd have no idea how to cook a turkey this year (I'll be postpartum 3 weeks this coming Thanksgiving!)

i noticed that everyone referred to the dinner as a 'fall feast' 99% of the time. do they celebrate 'thanksgiving' also, or is it the same? my kids went to a southern baptist school & they did a thanksgiving dinner at the school where parents are invited. my people believe you should be thankful for every meal & not have just 1 day of thanksgiving. wondering if they also have the same mindset?

There's an old clip of the when Jessa planned the "dinner theater" for her parents that showed Jessa saying that she was used to cooking "big pots of spaghetti" and that she had been cooking supper "just about every day since I started courting 5 months ago." And now she claims she only cooks a few times a month and doesn't know how to cook very well? What happened??

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